I'm one of the seemingly many folks that got stung by Zetalink, having paid for two FLW kits a few years ago and never receiving them. Life's too short to cry over spilt milk... but have finally decided to do something with the tubes I bought at the time - 4 B7971s and 4 ZM1350s - so have decided to embark on making my own Arduino-based FLW.
Although I'm fairly new to electronics, having really just built a few clocks based on the TubeHobby kit, I am a programmer by day so I'm reasonably confident with the software side of it. So I plan to start building the prototype based on some common anode LED starburst displays which I have - I figured they are at least logically the same as doing it with the tubes. With that in mind: 1. Once the code is done and working on LEDs (it may be quite some time, given the trials of life...), is anyone interested in helping with circuits to drive the high voltage tubes? Am hoping to come up with a fairly easy to build design that can be open sourced along with the code. I have the schematics for Ray Ws design if it's any help. 2. I'm planning to code the LED version as closely as possible to the final tube version, so will be multiplexing them. Looking at Ray Ws design, it looks like the digits are multiplexed, with only one driven at a time... could/should/shouldn't I multiplex the individual segments too? Not sure if the tubes would be bright enough? Feel free to infer as much cluelessness in me as seems appropriate :) But any tips, advice etc much appreciated... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neonixie-l/-/tvLiCjd1WVMJ. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
